The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
ROBERT KENNEDYJust because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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